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| − | + | '''Height''' is a vocalic feature that refers to the vertical position of the tongue body, specifically its distance from the roof of the mouth. There are three levels of this feature: high, low, and mid. <nowiki>[i, ɪ, ʊ, u]</nowiki> are the high vowels of English. <nowiki> [e, ɛ, ɔ, o, ʌ, ə]</nowiki> are the mid vowels of English, and <nowiki>[æ, ɑ]</nowiki> are the low vowels of American English (other dialects have other low vowels). | |
==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
| − | [[ | + | *[[Vowel (definition)]] |
| − | [[ | + | *[[Frontness (definition)]] |
| − | [[Backness (definition)]] | + | *[[Backness (definition)]] |
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
| + | *https://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~krussll/phonetics/articulation/describing-vowels.html | ||
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*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vowel_height | *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vowel_height | ||
Revision as of 14:29, 30 November 2020
Height is a vocalic feature that refers to the vertical position of the tongue body, specifically its distance from the roof of the mouth. There are three levels of this feature: high, low, and mid. [i, ɪ, ʊ, u] are the high vowels of English. [e, ɛ, ɔ, o, ʌ, ə] are the mid vowels of English, and [æ, ɑ] are the low vowels of American English (other dialects have other low vowels).
See Also
External Links
The link below takes you away from the Gaelic Wiki to Wikipedia. Since wikipedia pages can be edited by anyone, they often contain inaccurate information. So be careful!
References
- Matthews, P. H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Ladefoged, D. (2010) A Course in Phonetics. 6th Edition. Wadsworth Publishing.
